Herd immunity is no longer a discussion the world – or South Africa – should be having. We should start to avoid using that term in the context of Sars-CoV-2, because it’s unlikely to materialise in our lifetimes. By Shabir A Madhi.
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The future is not just more and nicer suburbs, better pay and new forms of social media. All those are likely to happen, but they won’t be the biggest changes.
Ethereum is about to undergo a technical adjustment that will significantly alter the way transactions are processed, as well as reduce the supply of the ether token and sharply boost its price.
Margin pressure is forcing BCX, the IT services business in the Telkom stable, to think more creatively about new revenue opportunities, according to its CEO, Jonas Bogoshi.
If it’s serious about videogames, Netflix should give serious consideration to buying CD Projekt, the beleaguered game maker behind Cyberpunk 2077. By Kim Tae.
Raees Cajee has emerged from hiding in Tanzania to oppose the final liquidation of Africrypt, the bitcoin investment scheme that was allegedly hacked and emptied of R54-billion.
Shifting geopolitics and a sharp round of cost cutting have put Nokia firmly back in the global 5G roll-out race just a year after CEO Pekka Lundmark took the reins at the Finnish company.
Pandemics don’t cause riots. They do, though, create the perfect conditions for turmoil in fragile societies that are already powder kegs of sky-high unemployment, and where Covid-19 has inevitably hit the poor hardest.
The mayhem of the last few days is a reminder of the danger that South Africa continues to live with, as well as an indication of the disfigurement of its law enforcement institutions.
Regulators have been struggling to get a grip on the burgeoning world of cryptocurrencies. It’s increasingly important that they succeed, and soon.